Hi everyone!
It seems there has been some confusion around the voting for the community banner competition - and with a few of the key community members who initiated it away, I’m going to clarify a few things so that everyone feels comfortable with how it will work :slightly_smiling_face:
Voting - there has been some concern about the voting tool that is being used, and the potential for people to game it. While we trust our community, it’s still probably best to set up as much of a barrier for spam/fraud as possible, so this is why we are switching to a new voting tool. Apologies to anyone who has voted - but you will be able to vote again. The main difference with this tool is that it requires a login before you can vote - and has a bunch of hidden anti-spam features. We will extend the voting period till the 24th just to make sure that no one misses out.
The other concern is that some of the banners don’t match up with the Nav Coin brand, which could cause confusion for people who are new & haven't seen us. I’ll talk about how we address this soon…
So essentially, what is going to happen is that the new voting tool will be put in place shortly (on the same banner page on the website). And we will extend the voting period just to make sure that no one misses out.
If anyone has any last minute banners - then make sure to send them to me in the next 12 hours, as otherwise you won’t be able to get added to the new voting system.
People should vote on the ones they like, and make comments in Slack or on the Bitcointalk forum about any improvements to be made to them. The top two rated banners, at the end of the period, will receive the prize money.
After this time, we will then contact the users who created the top voted banners, and get them to make any of the suggested changes from the community. Ideally there will be a few variations that we can run, so that we can let Google optimise towards the best performing one (with the highest click through rate).
Because we are a brand and these will be publicly facing ad’s, we will let the banner creators know if any of the images or wording clash with our brand values and try to sort out the best way to fix it (and we will be open with the wider community about this as well).
Hope this solves a few of the concerns! Any questions, just let me know :slightly_smiling_face:
Check out the updated voting tool here
https://navcoin.org/vote-in-the-banner-competition/